Syracuse, N.Y. -- One day after Syracuse athletic director Daryl Gross said there was a proposal to resume the basketball rivalry with Georgetown with a 10-year series, Georgetown officials issued statements that they, too, want the feud to continue.

"Georgetown has been, and is very, interested in seeing a series with Syracuse become a reality,'' Georgetown athletic director Lee Reed said in a statement via the school's sports information department.

Syracuse's move from the Big East to the Atlantic Coast Conference meant an end to the heated regular season games between the two schools. Georgetown's final visit to the Carrier Dome as a conference foe last season drew a record crowd of 35,012 to the Carrier Dome.

Gross also indicated that his discussions with Georgetown athletic director Lee Reed went back to before the 2012-13 season.

"We have had some conversations with their administration about continuing the series over the course of the last year, but nothing has been finalized,'' Reed said. "I am confident, however, that we will continue to play them in the near future."

Gross said Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim was also on board with the prospect of agreeing to a long-term series with the Hoyas. Syracuse will play former Big East foes St. John's and Villanova this season.

Georgetown coach John Thompson III said he hopes to face Syracuse in the future, however, the Hoyas are now part of a new Big East Conference. The new Big East didn't have a commissioner until this summer.

"The Georgetown-Syracuse rivalry is one of the great rivalries in college basketball and it will continue,'' Thompson said. "In many ways, we are in uncharted waters. We have a re-launched conference, a new commissioner, and a new television partner with Fox Sports. As soon as we get a grasp on what our future mandated out-of-conference obligations will be and those time frames, the details with Syracuse will be finalized.